On June 26, the People's Committee of Quang Nam province announced that it had decided to hand over the principalship of Quang Nam Medical College to Mr. Bui Long An - vice principal of the school, until the competent authority decides to appoint a principal.

Previously, on June 14, Quang Nam Medical College sent a document to the Provincial People's Committee requesting to issue temporary graduation certificates to current graduates.

Accordingly, after Mr. Huynh Tan Tuan - Principal of Quang Nam Medical College, was prosecuted and temporarily suspended from his position by the Provincial People's Committee, the school only had 2 vice principals. According to regulations, no one had the authority to sign the graduation certificates for students who had reached the graduation period.

Faced with this situation, Quang Nam Medical College requested the Provincial People's Committee to allow Mr. Bui Long An - Vice Principal, to sign and issue temporary graduation certificates to students graduating this term, with an expected number of 120 students.

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Quang Nam Medical College has been "unstuck" in awarding graduation certificates to students. Photo: Nguyen Nam

According to Mr. Bui Long An, after being assigned by the Provincial People's Committee to be the principal, he signed the graduation certificates for the students who are qualified to graduate. On June 29, the school will hold a graduation ceremony for about 70 students in the first batch. At the same time, it will continue to review and grant degrees to the remaining students.

As reported by VietNamNet, on April 1, the Investigation Police Agency of Quang Nam Province initiated a case and prosecuted Mr. Huynh Tan Tuan - Principal and Mr. Nguyen Ba - former Principal of Quang Nam Medical College, to investigate the crime of abusing position and power while performing official duties at this school.

At the same time, authorities also prosecuted the school's accountant and a business director directly related to the case.

According to the conclusion of the Quang Nam Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Committee, in the two terms of 2015-2020 and 2020-2025, Quang Nam Medical College used more than 23 billion VND in funding compared to the number of students enrolled in training.

In addition, the General Hospital under the Quang Nam Medical College implemented health insurance examination and treatment expenses exceeding the ceiling and total amount (2016-2020 period) by more than 12 billion VND; owed money for medicine purchases from suppliers (2016-2020 period) by 9.4 billion VND.

Violations at Quang Nam Medical College led to prolonged salary arrears for employees, so in December 2023, the school's lecturers decided to collectively stop working. Afterwards, the Quang Nam Provincial People's Committee provided additional support of VND 5.8 billion for the school to pay salary arrears to employees.

The principal was prosecuted, the school had a headache about signing graduation certificates for students.

The principal was prosecuted, the school had a headache about signing graduation certificates for students.

After the principal was prosecuted, Quang Nam Medical College only had two vice principals and no one had the authority to sign graduation certificates for students.